The GettyResearch Institute
Research Home Tools Union List of Artist Names Full Record Display
Union List of Artist Names Full Record Display
New Search Previous Page Help
Click the icon to view the hierarchy.
 
Semantic View (JSON, JSONLD, RDF, N3/Turtle, N-Triples)

ID: 500019962
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500019962
 
Record Type: Person
Parks, Gordon (American photographer, writer, film director, 1912-2006)

Note: Self-taught, Parks worked as a photographer for the Farm Security Administration from 1942-1943, Life Magazine from 1948-1961, where he was the first black staff photographer; and as a freelance fashion photographer. He directed films in the 1960s and 1970s including "The Learning Tree" and "Shaft," composed music, and was the author of several books, mostly memoirs.

Names:
Parks, Gordon (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
Gordon Parks (V,display)
Parks, Gordon Alexander Buchanan (V)
Parks, Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan (V)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
African American

Roles:
artist (preferred)
composer (music)
photographer
writer
author
film director

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Fort Scott (Bourbon county, Kansas, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
colleague of ....  Shearer, John  
......................  (American photographer, 1947-2019) [500486558]
employee of ....  Johnson Publishing Company  
....................  (American publishing company, 1942-2019) [500487409]
related to (familial) ....  Simms, Campbell E.  
......................................  (American commercial artist, 1906-1971) [500490911]
student of ....  Stryker, Roy Emerson  
..................  (American photographer, 1893-1975) [500335866]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Parks, Gordon (I)

Biographies:
(American photographer, writer, film director, 1912-2006) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American photographer, writer, and composer; born Fort Scott, Kansas in 1912) ..... [VP]
(American photographer, author, film director, composer, b.1912) ..... [BHA]
(African American photographer, 1912-2006) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1912-2006) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, 1912-2006) ..... [MoMA]
(American photographer, musician, 1912-2006) ..... [GRISC]
(photographer) ..... [GRISC]
(American photographer, 1912-2006) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Gordon Parks ........ [GRISC, MoMA, VP]
..........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Parks, Gordon ........ [GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 8083
............................  GRI, Special Collections, information for JPC acquisition (2019-)
............................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
............................  Grove Dictionary of Art (1996) 188
............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
............................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79090095
............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 377521
Parks, Gordon Alexander Buchanan ........ [BHA Preferred, Grove Art, VP]
................................................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
................................................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
Parks, Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan ........ [GRISC, VP]
...........................................................................  Grundberg, Gordon Parks, New York Times (2006)

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-) http://www.moma.org/collection/artists/8083
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n79090095
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 8083
....................  GRI, Special Collections, information for JPC acquisition (2019-) n 79090095
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art (1996) 188
....................  Grundberg, Gordon Parks, New York Times (2006)
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n79090095
....................  Naggar, Dictionnaire des photographes (1982)
....................  Naylor, Contemporary Photographers (1988)
....................  Parry, Photography Index (1979)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 377521
....................  SNAC: Social Networks and Archival Context [online] (2018-) 20752960
....................  VIAF: Virtual International Authority File [online] (2009-) 112248361
....................  Who Was Who in America (1899-1890-)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q159907; Q365682
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Grundberg, Gordon Parks, New York Times (2006)
New Search

Back to Top

Printer Friendly Version
The J. Paul Getty Trust
The J. Paul Getty Trust

© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / Contact Us